December 21, 2020 Liane Randolph, Incoming Chair California Air Resources Board Dear Chair Randolph, Congratulations on your recent appointment to chair the Air Resources Board. The Leadership Group appreciated your work as a member of the Public Utilities Commission, and looks forward to working with you in your new role.…
There’s nothing that the covid pandemic of 2020 hasn’t affected, and the SVLG Foundation annual races were no exception. Our Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot is usually the biggest Thanksgiving Day race in the country. But due to safety concerns, our cherished 16th annual event was forced to switch…
On December 17, 2020, we hosted a virtual COVID-19 Vaccine Town Hall for our members. This timely presentation and Q&A covered the latest news and research on the COVID-19 vaccines. We heard directly from physicians involved in California’s Health and Human Services Vaccination Guidelines Group and had the opportunity to…
December 18, 2020 Mary Nichols California Air Resource Board Dear Chair Nichols, The climate crisis is the most far-reaching and potentially irreversible problem facing humanity today and it must be addressed at the speed, scope and scale that science dictates. Under your leadership at the California Air Resources Board (CARB),…
For students of not too long ago, the job fair was a ritual they knew well. A chance to walk around tables, shake some hands, make some connections. And usually? Free tote bags. That kind of socialized work interaction seems like a complete break from our current reality. But for…
Bay Area traffic is legendary for maddening traffic jams that even the best podcasts can’t soothe. Traffic steals time from all the other things we’d rather be doing - in the Bay Area it amounts to over a year of our life on average that we will never get back.…
By Willie L. Brown Jr., Special to CalMatters, April 14, 2020 Many opponents of the original Proposition 13 have never given up. The same groups that fought the ballot measure more than four decades ago when 65 percent of the state’s electorate passed it have repeatedly tried to destroy the…
California is in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis. Small businesses in California face yet another threat—Prop 15 on the November ballot. Prop 15 will be the largest property tax increase in state history at $11.5 billion per year. Prop 15 shreds long-standing protections under Prop 13 that have…
There are many reasons to be concerned about the upcoming election in the United States, but none greater than the rise of the "deepfake" fabricated or doctored video that appears real, but that shows someone doing something they never did. With the tools for making these videos cheaper and more…
On August 25, 2020, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s Community College to Career program hosted a first-of-its-kind virtual career fair in partnership with Bay Area Council, Bay Area Community College Consortium and Ohlone College. A free, equity-focused event that brought together 25 community colleges, universities, nonprofits and workforce boards, the…